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单词 dent
释义
dent
noun[C]
uk
/dent/us
/dent/
asmallhollowmarkin thesurfaceof something,causedbypressureor by beinghit:
（物体表面上的）坑，凹陷
a dent in thedoorof acar车门上的凹陷
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Holes, hollows and dips
  • anti-crack
  • aperture
  • blistered
  • chink
  • cranny
  • cratering
  • dint
  • escape hatch
  • gouge
  • hollow
  • intake
  • interstice
  • leak
  • leaky
  • nook
  • nooks and cranniesidiom
  • opening
  • piercing
  • pinprick
  • tear
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Idiom

make/put a dent insomething
dent
verb[T]
uk
/dent/us
/dent/
to make asmallhollowmarkin thesurfaceof something:
使产生凹痕，使凹陷
Idroppedahammeron thefloor, and it dented thefloorboard.我一失手，锤子掉到地板上，把地板砸出了凹痕。
If you dent someone'sconfidenceorpride, you make themfeellessconfidentorproud:
打击，损伤（信心或自豪感）
Hisconfidencewasbadlydented when he didn't get thejob.他没能得到那个工作，自信心受到了沉重的打击。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making holes in things
  • bore
  • borer
  • breach
  • drill
  • gouge
  • hole
  • perforate
  • perforated
  • pierce
  • piercing
  • prick
  • probe
  • punch
  • puncture
  • rebore
  • redrill
  • riddle
  • undrilled

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Becoming and making less strong
(Definition ofdentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

dent| American Dictionary

dent
noun[C]
us
/dent/
asmall,hollowmarkin thesurfaceof somethingcausedbypressureor beinghit:
Sheraninto mycarand put a dent in it.

dent

verb[T]us
/dent/
Identedthetablewith myhammer.

Idiom

make a dent insomething
(Definition ofdentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One can think of legioned examples where dislocation and huge upset would be caused for small businesses, denting their production and wealth-creating capacity.
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The public image has been dented by the environmental crisis of the past 20 years.
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The barrier crashed on to the roof of a car, denting and scratching it.
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The right to silence and the admissibility of evidence are dented.
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The reality of discretionary spend would still hold, even if the principle were to be dented by accepting the new clause.
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As a result of past actions, trust has been dented.
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Pride is dented and old attitudes have to be set aside.
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Study of the graph of acci- dents since the records were commenced in the 1920s shows that we can.
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None of this has dented in any way the arguments which we put forward on these amendments.
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The income stream from such lotteries has been seriously dented by the creation of the national lottery.
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The institution in these recent times has had big knocks and severe dents.
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A careful study of the overall picture of civil employment indicates some most serious dents and bulges in the wrong places.
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Is it possible that confidence was not dented because people think that the present solution is rather better than the one we had before?
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Therefore, the vital importance of this question cannot surely be dented.
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From the other place this patchwork, with criticism and even consideration limited by the guillotine, has emerged slightly scratched but hardly dented.
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